Quick update on Active Sky for v5

[Sethos 4,364]

I assume a fair few people are waiting for this one, so I figured I'd provide a quick update for those who don't check their Facebook page;

 

Hopefully they don't hit any major snags.

[virtualstuff 759]

Thanks for the update, and hope so don't fly without AS here local...

Edited May 2, 2020 by awf

[rutrA 282]

Second page

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/574429-active-sky-public-beta-for-p3d-v5-may-start-early-next-week/

Edited May 2, 2020 by rutra

[pgde 571]

Getting a page not found error in Rutra's link above.

[spitzer 19]

One question; will active sky be able to used with truesky?

Edited May 2, 2020 by spitzer

[Sethos 4,364]

2 minutes ago, spitzer said:

One question; will active sky be able to used with truesky?

Yes

[threexgreen 3,142]

I'm hoping they will have their own way of working around the high altitude wind bug.

[JRBarrett 3,080]

3 minutes ago, threegreen said:

I'm hoping they will have their own way of working around the high altitude wind bug.

I suspect that Active Sky uses a custom way of interacting with the simulator’s environment that goes above and beyond the functions offered by the default P3D SDK, in the same way that high-end aircraft developers like PMDG and FSL do with their systems emulations. The wind shift bug probably doesn’t affect Active Sky. I doubt that they would preparing to release their first beta next week if the bug was a factor.

[SolRayz 392]

I can't wait for AS, but at the same time I hate the thought of dialing settings back more. Hopefully it doesn't come to that. 

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

44 minutes ago, Sethos said:

 

Will ASN properly control and enact with winds?

[bbain1187 118]

26 minutes ago, Sesquashtoo said:

Will ASN properly control and enact with winds?

I don't think Hifi would release a public Beta without proper wind control.

Since the bug causes surface winds to be at altitude, I'm guessing they have found a way to control surface surface winds and change them to whatever the winds aloft would be for whatever altitude you're flying at. That seems to be the logical work-around.

[regis9 4,019]

It will certainly be interesting to see what performance looks like in v5 with Active Sky loaded up.  I am excited to see real weather again though, my piloting skills are getting rusty with all of this fair weather flying 😉

[JRBarrett 3,080]

23 minutes ago, regis9 said:

It will certainly be interesting to see what performance looks like in v5 with Active Sky loaded up.  I am excited to see real weather again though, my piloting skills are getting rusty with all of this fair weather flying 😉

In the interim I’ve been using both FSGRW and Opus, both of which can create a reasonably dense variety of clouds, and I haven’t noticed too big an impact on frame rates. A bit more VRAM used when there are several cloud types and layers. I’ve been flying with old school clouds. Have not tried True Sky yet since the HF came out to see if there are any changes there

[bbain1187 118]

I wonder if it would be possible to get a mix of TrueSky and regular clouds, for when they are depicting thunderstorms. Because I don't think you can have a 45,000-foot anvil with 2 cloud layers.

[Midnight Music 252]

5 hours ago, threegreen said:

I'm hoping they will have their own way of working around the high altitude wind bug.

What wind bug? I went into my weather tab and changed the wind at all altitudes to 0. That seem to take care of it.